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...West is hardly new or unusual. A decade ago, the musical farce "Team America: World Police" had Kim's father, KimJongIl, turning into a cockroach.Viral Kim memes are rife on the Internet and Hollywood has in recent years turned to North...

...movies like "Team America: World Police" could pass by without incident because the intentions are clearly satirical. KimJong-il, who was one of the many public figures made fun of in that 2004 release, never issued any threats related to the...

...hairstyles of both Kim Jong Un and his father, the late KimJongIl, who had a one-of-a-kind bouffant.Though the...pins with the images of former leaders Kim Il Sung and KimJongIl, or for violations such as blue jeans, clothes with...

...of the 1990s famine and to what extent it was due to natural disasters - as the authoritarian regime of then-leader KimJongIl claimed - or to mismanagement.The report identifies crimes against humanity committed through "decisions and policies...

...saw the death of Kim's father, KimJongIl, in December 2011 as an opportunity...raise his head when Kim Il Sung and KimJongIl were alive," it said, referring...first leader and his son. But after KimJongIl's death, it claimed, Jang saw...

...This is the same Madeleine Albright who returned from a couple of days of "hard meetings" with North Korean leader KimJong-Il and said he was a decent man, "pragmatic ... not hostile."She really said that about one of the world's most...

...Intelligence James Clapper told the House Intelligence Committee that he thinks Kim, who took control after his father, KimJongIl, died in 2011, is trying to show the U.S., the world and his own people that he is "firmly in control in North...

...walking from all parts of Pyongyang to lay flowers and bow before the bronze statues of Kim and his son, late leader KimJongIl, as the mournful "Song of Gen. Kim Il Sung" played repeatedly.Their birthdays are considered the most important...

...year to former President Bill Clinton, who flew to Pyongyang to negotiate their release in a visit that then-leader KimJongIl treated as a diplomatic coup.Including Ling and Lee, Bae is at least the sixth American detained in North Korea since...

...border from China.They later were pardoned on humanitarian grounds and released to Clinton, who met with then-leader KimJongIl. U.S.-North Korea talks came later that year.In 2011, Carter visited North Korea to win the release of imprisoned...